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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69047	A dialogue betwixt Cosmophilus and Theophilus anent the urging of new ceremonies upon the kirke of Scotland	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650, attributed name.; Murray, John, 1575?-1632, attributed name.	1620 (1620)	STC 4355; ESTC S114406	21,825	48

Cosm. in going awayward to Rome to meet them but who sees that they have any mind to meet you mid-way Ye think to draw them to you but ye have chosen the wrong cords their own ceremonies by the which they will draw you neerer to their Babel then ye shal do them to your Ierusalem And if they seem to draw neere to you by such means ye had need to beware of Iudas kiss that is treachery cruelty under the cloke of hypocrisie Cosm. Ye are too much afraid for so few honest innocent ceremonies the peaceable receving wherof wil make you quit of the cumber of any moe Theoph. It is not your word or vote will cleanse them they have been so oft convict condemned and to receive one ceremonie is to receive all For they are not loose bnt linked as in a chain so inseparably that draw one draw all It is but your policie to let some few that look most smoothly appeare to hide the rest which wil follow hard on Cosm. Let alone Theoph. trouble not your selfe your shallow wit cannot conceive the draught of so deep wisedome Theoph. It may wel be a deep wit but it seems to be no divine wisedom to trouble the peace of so vvell a constitute Kirk by intruding such idle ceremonies as if there were worth in them to countervaile the meanest point of that peace Surely even an approved politick wit would be loath to make such an interchange seeing any one of the least points of the peace of Christs Kirk is worth all your gracelesse and peacelesse ceremonies Cos. Now I desire to have your particular answer severally first for the authority of our Kirk Have not the conclusions of that late assembly holden at Perth credit to take away all scruples and to satisfie your conscience anent the receiving and practising of these formes Theoph. Certainly they have not Cosm. for it is Scripture and not Kirk-conclusions which settles and satisfies the conscience As for that Assembly the unlawfull constitution the violent and posted proceeding and the crafty closing of it wel enough known to all declares those conclusions to have been rather collusions and delusions Cosm. What meanes the man Doth the credit of that reverend Assembly weigh so light in the ballance of your braine Theoph. I am not speaking fantasie Cosm. but verity I wil put in bellance with that unlawful assembly which was so divided in judgement and consent all the former worthy and well constitute Assemblies for the space of moe then a Iubile of yeares consenting in one minde and mouth Then let a constant and conscientious hand hold it and ye shal sensibly perceive how light and little worth your one is in reducing these superstitious formes in respect of the weight and worth of all those in removing them Cosm. Wel Theoph. ye should not reason against the Acts of an Assembly nor set your selfe as a Iudge to censure them and your superiours Theoph. Ye see Cosm. it is not I but many godly and grave Assemblies reason against one pretended assembly and doe justly chalenge it of levity and perjurie for restoring those so deservedly forefalted Romish rites Farther ye know that how sever the Lords injunctiōs are to be receved without questioning yet the ordinances of the Kirk are presented to us not with the necessity of beleeving but with the liberty of judging For albeit the judgment of jurisdiction to censure belongs not to me yet I should have the judgement of discretion to satisfie my conscience by the warrant of the word in all poynts of obedience to my superiours Cosm. Say what you please Theoph. against that Assembly it wil stand and the decrees of it wil have place ay and while they be reduced Theoph. Stand as it wil Cosm. to the formalist it shal not stand in my conscience neither shal the decrees thereof have place in my practise neither should it or the decrees thereof stand to others seeing both it and they stand against all good order and the wholsome doctrine of the word The good people perceive this and therfore they skar and skunner with the iniquity and vanity of the conclusions therof Where before they did ever willingly subiect themselves to the constitutions of our ancient Assemblies because they evidently saw the equity and the utility of the conclusions and lawful manner of their proceedings Cos It seemes then Theoph. ye mind to play the schismatike and make a separation seeing ye● mean not to stand to the judgement of our Kirk Theoph. Your kirk Cosm. what doe you call your selves a kirk are ye comparing a kirk scarse cropen out of the cradle and a cripple halting kirk with a kirk so ancient so honorable and indued with such vvisedome and prudence by long and manifold experience which studied carefully to walke ever uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel As for schisme or separation it seems ye vvot not vvhat they meane For in the unitie both of judgement and practise we yet stand with the kirk wherein we were baptised and brought up and vvhereunto we gaue our right hand of fellowship and band of fidelitie which being broken by you ye may justlie bee called schismatikes both from this Kirk and from your selves also seeing ye have broken down the beautiful walles of our Ierusalem and have re-edified the cursed walles of Iericho Ye have built a Kirk to your self standing upon thritten rotten pillars but painted with ceremonial colours all of the workmanship of Rome Cosm. Now let me heare Theoph. what ye can say particularlie to the kings authoritie may he not lawfullie enjoyn these things Theo. Not Cosm. seeing beside that which hath been sayd alreadie they want the warrant of the word and ye know that the book of the law of God should lye ever open before his eyes to lead him in every point and appointment of any thing within the bounds of his authoritie that concerns the work of God and his holie vvorship Coms See ye not Theoph. the credit of his royall authoritie engaged to the advancement of these errands Theoph. I see it not Cos. for it was the credit and commendations of the good and godly Kings of Iuda to root out and remove Idolatry and all the monuments thereof from among Gods people and by the contrary a discredit and dispraise to those who either planted permitted or reduced them Cosm. But is he not a Prince wise learned and religious without a peere this day living upon the face of the earth who would bee loath to doe any thing but that which is lawful Theoph. I acknowledge he is and so was David a most worthy Prince and Prophet too yet he needed a Nathan both to draw him to repentance and to direct him in things concerning the house of God Cosm. There is not a minister Theoph. within his dominions yea joyn them all together that knoweth so well what belongs to the house of God as he doth Theoph. It may